My discreet intervention was that I bringing a McDonalds meal into the realm of fine dinning. People are not accustomed to seeing someone eat their chicken mcnuggets on a plate with proper silverware and fancy glasses.

Based on information collected through the public forum Reddit, the most dangerous address in Guelph, Ontario was located and became my destination. This image highlights a collection of data used to locate a place I should not be as well as images of the place and a receipt from a purchase while there.

 

I went into a building – namely the University of Guelph Science Complex- in which I wouldn’t normally enter, or have any business entering. In doing this I broke a personal idea that as an art student, I am not ‘allowed’ to be in a science building. I left behind a dime as a breadcrumb of me being there.

IMG_9757 from Alex Simons on Vimeo.

Walking where I’m not supposed to.

This totally functional cupboard is practical in the sense that it is very deep and it can store many things. With such a practical space I would believe that the opening of the cupboard is much bigger than the size of a human body so you can actually reach to the far back, unfortunately it is not. The opening is only big enough fit your shoulders through while giving you a claustrophobic feeling.

Intervening in a space I cannot fit.

Intervening in familiar spaces within the home, I put myself in unusual and impossible places.

I used Google Maps Satellite to visit Area 51, north of Las Vegas, Nevada.